An Imagined Community of Orphans: Belonging and Citizenship in Late Twentieth-Century Coming-of-Age Narratives
Talk given at Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Fall 2012.
"I did things other people don't do"
Georgia O'Keeffe as National Icon in the Twenty-First Century
Talk given at New England American Studies Conference, Fall 2011.
Letter Editions as Epistolary Fictions
Talk given at Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Fall 2009.
Was Georgia O'Keeffe a Feminist?:
Feminism, New Womanhood, and Historical Memory
Talk given at New England Modern Language Association
Conference
Spring, 2009.
Negotiating
Gendered Subjectivity in Georgia O'Keeffe's Autobiography
Talk given at New York University, The Colloquium in
American Literature and Culture,
Fall 2008.
Two Views of U.S. Feminism: Georgia O'Keeffe and Eleanor
Roosevelt
Organized panel and gave talk, along with Blanche Wiesen Cook and Bonnie S. Anderson, CUNY Graduate Center, Fall 2007.
"Imagination certainly is an entertaining thing to
have":
Feminism, Modernism, and Georgia O'Keeffe's Sexual Nationalism
Talk given at New England American Studies Association Conference, Fall 2007.
Georgia
O'Keeffe and Feminism
Talk given at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University,
Spring 2007.
Reading Published Letter Collections as Literary Texts:
The Correspondence between Maria Chabot and Georgia O'Keeffe, 1941-1949
Organized Panel, "Women's Letter Writing," and presented paper at Society for the Study of
American Women Writers Third International Conference, Fall 2006.
"I Must Tell
You": Approaches to the Study of Published Collections of Women's Letters
Paper presented at American Literature Association Conference, Spring 2006.
"My Letter to the
World": Letters, Letter-Writing, and Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Literary
History
Lecture given at CUNY Graduate Center, English Department Friday Forum Series, Spring 2006.
The Absent Presence of Feminism in Georgia O'Keeffe's
Autobiography
Paper presented at National American Studies Conference, Fall 2005.
Feminism, Story-telling, and Georgia O'Keeffe
Paper presented at Women's Stories, Women's Lives: Making Sense of Experience, Sarah Lawrence College Women's History Month Conference, Spring 2005.
Sex, Status, and Greeting Cards: Georgia O'Keeffe as an American Icon
Paper presented at National American Studies Association Conference, Fall 2004.
"Every
woman hopes to be a mother": Infanticide Stories by Mary Wilkins Freeman
and Sui Sin Far and the Literary Marketplace
Paper presented at American Literature Association Conference, Spring 2004.
"Anita-do you feel like flowers sometimes?": Georgia O'Keeffe, Flowers, and the Unresolved Problems of
Feminism
Paper presented at Columbia University Women and Society Meeting, Spring 2004.
Anger,
Violence, and Belonging in Woman-Authored Infanticide Stories
Paper presented at National
American Studies Conference, Fall 2003.
Georgia
O'Keeffe's Painting and Writing: Anger, Sexuality, and Denial
Paper presented at Society for the Study of
American Women Writers International Conference, Fall 2003.
"I'll Make it an American
Painting":
Georgia O'Keeffe's Sexual
Nationalism
Paper presented at National
American Studies Conference, Fall 2002.
Thesis and Themes: Book Talks about The
Artistry of Anger
- Barnes & Noble, Park Slope, Spring 2002
- Bluestockings Women's Bookstore, Spring 2002
- York College, CUNY, Spring 2002
- American Studies New York Metro Salon Talk, Spring 2002
Formulating a New Literary Paradigm
Talk given at York College as part of the Faculty Forum Series, Spring 2001.
Women are Angry-Why?
Talk given at York College as part of
Women's History Month Series, Spring 2001.
"Little-Girl-Gone-To-Woman"
Border-Crossing Narratives:
Contemporary Women Writers' Reconfigurations of Love, Mothering, and Female
Maturation
Paper presented at National American Studies
Association Conference, Fall 1999.
"I am accused of tending to the past":
Reconstructing Nineteenth-Century African American Women's Literary History
Talk given at York College as part of Women's History
Month Series, Spring 1999.
Woman-Authored Infanticide Stories as Political
Discourse
Paper presented at The CUNY English Forum, Spring 1998.
Writing Keeps Women Sane
Talk given as part of panel discussion "Women and Madness: Resolving
Rage" sponsored by The CUNY Women's Studies Certificate Program and the Center
for the Study of Women and Society, Spring 1998.
Women and Anger in Nineteenth- and
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Talk given at York College as part of Women's History Series, Spring 1998.
Inventive Desperation: The Justice of Maternal
Murder in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Women's Literature
Paper presented at American Literature Association Conference, Spring 1997.
Behind the Cloak of Enchantment in Gillian
Armstrong's Little Women:
Feminist Affirmation or Hollywood Betrayal?
Paper presented at National American Studies Conference, Fall 1996.
"A Story's Like a Map": The Multiple Functions of Story Telling in
Shay Youngblood's The Big Mama Stories
Talk given at Columbus Museum Literary Series, Spring
1996.
Handmaidens of Power: Negotiating the Sacred and the Profane in
Nineteenth-Century African American Women's Spiritual Autobiographies
Paper presented at the International Conference on The
Sacred and The Profane,
Fall 1995.
"A Wide Curve of Ancient and Unexpressed
Angers":
Charting a Gendered History of "Black Rage" Texts and Articulations
Paper presented at American Women Writers of Color
Conference, Fall 1995.
Anzia Yezierska's Breadgivers and The American Success
Myth
Talk given at Columbus Museum Literary Series, Spring
1995.
Hidden in the Garret, Imprisoned in the Nation:
The Aesthetics of Anger in Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl
Lecture for Black History Month Celebration, Columbus
State University, Spring 1994.
Inspired Wrath: Maria W. Stewart's Use of Anger as Political
Agitation
Paper presented at Western Kentucky Women's Studies
Conference, Fall 1994.
Jean Toomer's Vision of Race and Gender Relations in
"Blood Burning Moon"
Talk given at Columbus Museum Literary Series, Fall 1994.
Anger in the House: The "Other" Side of Domesticity in
Nineteenth-Century American Women's Literature
Paper presented at Western Kentucky Women's Studies
Conference, Fall 1993.
Imagining the Forbidden: Gendered Responses to the Myth of Edenic
America
Paper presented at New England American Studies
Conference, Spring 1992.
The Artistry of Anger
Talk given at American Civilization Department, Brown
University, Spring 1992.
The Desert Has Its Compensations: Mary Austin's Vision of
Nature
Paper presented at New England American Studies
Conference, Spring 1991.
The Politics of Anger in Nineteenth-Century American Women's
Literature
Talk given at Gender Inquiries: Graduate Students' Works
in Progress Across the Disciplines, Brown University, Spring 1991.
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